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Towards a missional hermeneutic informing missional ecclesiology and transformative theological education in Africa. [PDF]

Missionalia, 2020
Decolonisation and Africanisation are two sides of the same coin and cannot be engaged as separate, either-or options. Africanisation implies transformation by cultural incorporation and assimilation.
Pieter H.J. Labuschagne
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From semiotic exegesis to contextual ecclesiology: The hermeneutics of missional faith in the COVIDian era

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021
This essay uses the global impact of the Coronavirus as a heuristic semiotic for exploring the future of the church. Unlike the pandemic of 1918, which left few dents on the world’s economic, social, and cultural systems, almost all the nations of the ...
Leonard I. Sweet
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The Counter-Cultural Church: An Analysis of the Neo-Anabaptist Contribution to Missional Ecclesiology in the Post-Christendom West [PDF]

Ecclesiology, 2019
In response to the ongoing secularization of the West, much missiological reflection on the church has turned to post-foundationalist, pragmatic and traditioned approaches culminating in a ‘counter-cultural’ model of the church.
S. Paas
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Reformed, Reunited, Remixed: How URCSA's Christian Youth Ministry has Reimagined Missional Ecclesiology in Southern Africa since 1994

Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae, 2019
On our continent various former mission churches, like the Uniting Reformed Christian Church in Southern Africa (URCSA), struggle with the quest of becoming an African church.
Reggie Nel
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Social media and the new struggles of young people against marginalisation: a challenge to missional ecclesiology in Southern Africa

, 2016
Social media technologies have become a prominent feature of public life, but also the personal lives of young people. The question is whether the academic discourses on the missional church in southern Africa have taken this trend into consideration ...
Reggie Nel
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LIVING IN THREE WORLDS: A RELATIONAL HERMENEUTIC FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A CONTEXTUAL PRACTICAL THEOLOGICAL APPROACH TOWARDS A MISSIONAL ECCLESIOLOGY

, 2015
This article argues for an integrated paradigmatic approach to conducting practical theological research. This integration is prompted by the researcher’s experience as theologian in a culturally diverse community where theologies from different ...
Guillaume H. Smit
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“It is better to build a bridge…” Using the praxis cycle of Holland and Henriot in discerning an African Reformed missional ecclesiology

, 2014
Reformed churches in Africa need bridge-building, uniting ecclesiologies. From the challenges on local congregational, but also at denominational level, it seems as if ecclesial apartheid (sadly) remains.
Reggie Nel
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Ecclesiology and Minjung Mission of Suh, Nam Dong

THEOLOGICAL THOUGHT, 2009
류장현
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Costly Communion: Mission Between Ecclesiology and Ethics [PDF]

The Ecumenical Review, 1997
George Vandervelde
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Missional Leadership [PDF]

, 2021
The purpose and aim of this book is to develop an appropriate leadership model for missional churches. This implies a positioning of this book within the broader theology of mission and a consensus on the theology of the Missio Dei, originating at the ...
Niemandt, Cornelius
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